Nuclear power can have very damaging effects to people and to the environment. However, in order to keep funding this alternate source of energy, what needs to be changed? Nuclear energy has a very high potential to generate massive amounts of power that can be provided to communities. It generates so much energy, that sometimes these community power plants can have dangerous meltdowns. These meltdowns, can cause catastrophic malfunctions damage to people and the environment. Aside from the meltdowns, the disposal of the nuclear waste, the byproduct from the power plants, is very harmful to everything around it. The operation and management of nuclear energy must be improved, and in a way that is safer to the environment. Nuclear power is
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According to When Technology Fails Chernobyl Accident, “two mammoth explosions blew apart Unit #4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat in the Ukrainian republic of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what is now the independent country of Ukraine.” The explosions had many damaging effects to all around it. The crew that had been working at the unit at the time with the reactor was killed almost instantly, and anyone within the general vicinity of the area was seriously injured. The source of error in this catastrophe was the experimentation the crew of the power plant was conducting. In order to prevent this type of event from happening again, people need to look back on what happened. In this case, as aforementioned previously, two explosions had occurred from unsupervised experimentations. If they had a stricter policy on what can be allowed during operation, and if they had a more developed response system in case of a potential meltdown, the event of the Chernobyl accident may have never occurred. If the methods of operation were safer, and had less room for error, then nuclear power plants would not be seen as so dangerous and it would give people a better chance to benefit from nuclear …show more content…
One of the most dangerous parts of the power plant is the core from where the reactions occur. In the core, nuclear rods produce a vast amount of heat. Since the nuclear rods are very radioactive, they are highly dangerous to the human person. In the event that there is a nuclear meltdown, radiation is released into the atmosphere. The aftermath of a meltdown can be very destructive to the environment around it. The nuclear radiation that is sent into the atmosphere does not usually leave for a considerable amount of time. In order to improve upon the environment, the companies need to have a better, more preventable way to stop meltdowns. In the event of a nuclear meltdown the companies need a way to at the very least get the situation under control, and in a way “dampen” the overall effect. In order to overall prevent accidents from human error, is to have stricter procedures and policies. The cooling complexes of these nuclear power plants are already complex, but they could be improved. They need to have a system for coolant to be running through the core even when a meltdown is starting to occur. The main reason as to why accidents happen inside of the core is due to coolant not being ran through it, thus it causes it to
According to When Technology Fails Chernobyl Accident, “two mammoth explosions blew apart Unit #4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat in the Ukrainian republic of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what is now the independent country of Ukraine.” The explosions had many damaging effects to all around it. The crew that had been working at the unit at the time with the reactor was killed almost instantly, and anyone within the general vicinity of the area was seriously injured. The source of error in this catastrophe was the experimentation the crew of the power plant was conducting. In order to prevent this type of event from happening again, people need to look back on what happened. In this case, as aforementioned previously, two explosions had occurred from unsupervised experimentations. If they had a stricter policy on what can be allowed during operation, and if they had a more developed response system in case of a potential meltdown, the event of the Chernobyl accident may have never occurred. If the methods of operation were safer, and had less room for error, then nuclear power plants would not be seen as so dangerous and it would give people a better chance to benefit from nuclear …show more content…
One of the most dangerous parts of the power plant is the core from where the reactions occur. In the core, nuclear rods produce a vast amount of heat. Since the nuclear rods are very radioactive, they are highly dangerous to the human person. In the event that there is a nuclear meltdown, radiation is released into the atmosphere. The aftermath of a meltdown can be very destructive to the environment around it. The nuclear radiation that is sent into the atmosphere does not usually leave for a considerable amount of time. In order to improve upon the environment, the companies need to have a better, more preventable way to stop meltdowns. In the event of a nuclear meltdown the companies need a way to at the very least get the situation under control, and in a way “dampen” the overall effect. In order to overall prevent accidents from human error, is to have stricter procedures and policies. The cooling complexes of these nuclear power plants are already complex, but they could be improved. They need to have a system for coolant to be running through the core even when a meltdown is starting to occur. The main reason as to why accidents happen inside of the core is due to coolant not being ran through it, thus it causes it to